Aix-les-Bains Circuit du Lac

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The Circuit du Lac was a temporary street circuit in Aix -les- Bains on the 1949-1961 both motorcycle racing and car racing were extended.

The route led through the city center of Aix -les- Bains, a spa town in the department of Savoie in the Rhone -Alpes. Hazards was performed on a 2,400 -meter circuit. From 1949 to 1953 it was here five times in a row, the Grand Prix du Lac - a Formula 2 race - is discharged. 1949 won Eugène Martin on a Jicey BMW and a year later Raymond Sommer in a works Ferrari 166F2. 1951 victory went to the Swiss Rudolf Fischer on a privately entered Ferrari 212F2. Jean Behra won in 1952 on a Gordini T16. The last Formula 2 races in Aux -les- Bains ended with a victory of Élie Bayol on a Osca 20th 1960, another round of the Formula Junior driven. After the route has not been used for motor sport.